Talking about gender roles during our Jane Eyre discussion really got me thinking. Gender roles has changed dramatically over time, and will probably continue to do so.
This lends to the question of why do we have gender roles? Many of them seem antiquated, and are continuously getting replaced. They also cause discrimination towards people who don’t follow specific gender roles.
In the beginning of the species, gender roles would have made practical sense. The physically stronger male could hunt for food, while the woman who was better equipped to take care of babies. But in today’s society, both woman and men can “bring home the bacon” as making money is not dependent on strength in most facets of modern society. We also have baby formula, etc. So are gender roles just left-overs from our start as a species? Or are they engrained within our genetic code?
In the future, gender roles will probably shift even more, but will they ever really disappear?
1 comments:
I would say that the gender roles would keep existing due to the physical difference between women and men.
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